Surat Agency

Surat Agency सूरत સુરત سورت
Agency of British India
1880–1933
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Surat Agency within Gujarat
Area
• 1901	5,076 km^2 (1,960 sq mi)
Population
• 1901	179,975
History
• Abolition of the Khandesh Agency	1880
• Formation of the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency	1933
Preceded by Succeeded by Khandesh Baroda and Gujarat States Agency

Surat Agency with all princely states with labels British India 1880-1933

Bansda and Dharampur, 1896

The Surat Agency was one of the agencies of British India in the Bombay Presidency.^[1]

History

This agency was formed in the 19th century as the Khandesh Agency, after the region of Khandesh, becoming the Surat Agency in 1880.^[2] Around 1900, the Dangs were incorporated, and in 1933, it was abolished and became part of the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency.

In 1944, towards the end of the British Raj, the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency was ultimately merged with the Western India States Agency to form the larger Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency.

The headquarters of the Surat Agency were at Surat, where the Political Agent who reported to the Political Department office in Bombay, used to reside.^[3]

States

The agency included three 9-gun salute princely states and the Dangs.^[1]

Salute States

• Sachin
• Bansda
• Dharampur

The Dangs

The Dangs were a group of small states in what is now the Dang district of Gujarat State.

State	Population[4]	Revenue (1881, Rs.)	Ruler's title. Notes
Dang Pimpri	3,600	3106	388 km^2
Dang Wadhwan	253	147	approx. 12 km^2. Not to be confused with Wadhwan State, whose capital was Wadhwan.
Dang Ketak Kadupada	218	155
Dang Amala	5,300	2885; 1891: 5300	Raja. 307 km^2
Dang Chinchli	1,670; 1891: approx. 1,400	601	approx. 70 km^2
Dang Pimpladevi	134	120	approx. 10 km^2
Dang Palasbishar (= Palasvihir)	223	230	approx. 5 km^2
Dang Auchar	approx. 500	201	< 21 km^2
Dang Derbhauti	4,891; 1891: approx. 5,000	3649	Raja. 196 km^2
Dang Gadhavi (= Gadhi)	6,309	5125	Raja.
Dang Shivbara	346	422	approx. 12 km^2
Dang Kirli (= Kirali)	167	512	31 km^2
Dang Wasurna	6,177	2275
Dang Dhude (= Bilbari)	1,450; 1891: 1,418	85	< 5 km^2
Dang Surgana	14,000	11,469
Machhali	1,100	4745	35

See also

• Western India States Agency

References

1. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Surat" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 117.
2. The Indian Year Book, Volume 11 by Bennett, Coleman & Company, 1924
3. William Lee-Warner, The Native States Of India. (1910)
4. Hunter, W. W.; Imperial Gazetteer of India; London ²1885, Vol. IV, S 115-6

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